Governing Disorder

by Zanotti, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780271037622
• ISBN10: 0271037628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democratize disorderly states but also to take responsibility for protecting people around the world from a range of dangers, including poverty, disease, natural disasters, and gross violations of human rights. National sovereignty came to be considered less an entitlement enforced by international law than a privilege based on states' satisfactory performance of their perceived obligations. In Governing Disorder, Laura Zanotti combines her firsthand experience of UN peacebuilding operations with the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the genealogy of post-Cold War discourses promoting international security. Zanotti also maps the changes in legitimizing principles for intervention, explores the specific techniques of governance deployed in UN operations, and identifies the forms of resistance these operations encounter from local populations and the (often unintended) political consequences they produce. Case studies of UN interventions in Haiti and Croatia allow her to highlight the dynamics at play in the interactions between local societies and international peacekeepers. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Retheorizing the Post-Cold War International Order	p. 14
Governmentalizing the Post-Cold War International Regime: The UN Debate on Democratization and Good Governance	p. 40
Establishing a Global Biopolitical Order: Managing Risk, Protecting Populations, Blurring Spaces of Governance	p. 59
Imagining Democracy, Building Unsustainable Institutions: International Disciplinarity in the UN Peacekeeping Operation in Haiti	p. 74
Normalizing Democracy and Human Rights: Discipline, Resistance, and Carceralization in Croatia's Pacification and Euro-Atlantic Integration	p. 107
Conclusions	p. 139
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 171
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